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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Best Friends Low Men
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Courage Dignity Grace His
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Disillusionment Wisdom Comes By
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Build Emotional Emotional Life Life
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Cruel Free Loved Makes
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Been Education Forgotten Learned
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Machines Men Problem Real
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Books Great Love Reading
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Act Affect Again Consequences
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Always Best Circumstances Failure
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

Act Area Being Directing
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Another Church Get Kind
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Bothered College Faith Freshman
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Basically Been Behave Believe
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Agnostic Cannot Conditions Force
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Changed Culture Inherited Last
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Along Coming Get Quantity
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

Apply Behavior Benefits Changing
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Down Falls Individual Insist
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Avoid Been Behave Best
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Abandoned Continue Deteriorate Environment
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Bar Chief Complacent Knowledge
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

Action Categories Combat Elements
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Decide Helplessness Hope Hopelessness
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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

Action Discover Duty Endeavor
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
Dependent Few Guerrilla Kind
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Life should be great rather than long.
Great Life Long Rather
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Different Eminent Great Man
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Achieve Avail Freedom Law
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Body Gets Law Medicine
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Both Die Idea Men
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Between Closest Friends Husband
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Equality Fraternity Liberty Like
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Aim Cultivation Existence Human
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Alone Being Born Development
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Conflict Discrimination Full Fundamental
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Act Cannot Ceases Essence
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Constitution Denies Different Embodied
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Always Been Come Compel
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Based Ethics Good Held
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Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

Abolish Abolition Aim Alone
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
Incompatible Religion Slavery
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Consider Essential Foundation Hold
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

Base Cannot Democracy Does
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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.

Change Channels Full Ideal
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

Bad Constitution Good However
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

America Belief Believe Between
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Afternoon Better Blankets Cookies
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